New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-14
LIrERAsYxoTKS

An edition Of Paul and Virginia." delicsfe'y ana
POLITICALLY illustrated by Maurice Leloir' 10 announced
By the Routlcdgcs
sDc,ety in Romc and London Ia to be described In
Ouda's forthcoming booklet least society" a. Ouida
sses It.
Tho volume on Tennessee, in tho American Conn.,
nonwealths Series has boon written by the Hon.
James Phelan.
The list of republications announced by Mr.. W. n
jenkins includes Antonio Barrfs novelette, Una
Motto Bizarra,. "Mariusr: the third volume In the
French edition Of Les MIserables": new edition Oh
A. De vigny's "Cinq Msrs": and an edition Of Victor
Hugo's Hermann"
Mr. John AddIngt0n Symonds is making new
translation into English Of tho "Lfe VI Lenvenufo
Cellini" The work is to be illustrated with port
RAFT and eight etchings, and eighteen reproducuohS
OF tho works Of the master printed in gold' silver
and bronze The work will be in two volumes; ooo
wiz comprise the edition for England. There af'
also to be 100 copies printed on largo phpor'
Mr.. stockton's new story, the Dusantes, VIII %
begun In tho December "Century." IL VIII pre'oh'
come moro entcrtainine details concerning Mrs Lecks
and Mrs. Aleshine.
The scarcity of Trelawncy's "Records OF Shelley
Rv0n and the Author" has led Pickering, OF Lon
don to bring out cheap edition Of the book
The remarkable lectures on Shakespeare delivered
before tho Lowell Institute by the late Henry Giles
are be ressued In new edition Dy Leo ohcPai"
1t is work which deserves to live.
A book which promises to be interesting is coming
from the press in London 1t Is the work OF MT
Hannah a Scotchman, who has studied the Chinese
In their own country and who will describe under tho
garb Of fiction phases Of life In China
The Macmillans will publish for Mr.. Norman Mac
Coll his edition of four of Csderon's plays" inc
Constant Prince, SITES a Dream" Gel Alcalde de
ZLamca," and "El Escondido la Tapada"
A new edition of Mr. G. I. Austins Life Of Long
fellow is to be brought out almost Immediately by
Leo g. Shepard.
Mr. Edward King writes thus from Paris to The
Boston Journal y concerning Zola "There Is one
thing which the MASTER seated in his comfortable
study at Medon had not considered, and tat Is tho
change the literary fashion, just as important ana
imperative the change In hats or bonnets shoes or
the colors OF toilets for the premeres ut theatre
had occurred to him that he might outlive bis
vogue, and that the danger Of creating speciality
abnormal and less indecent in literature lay
precisely In this fact that some day the public would
weary of the abnormal and turn, as 1t has for tho
last 1000 years. back to the pure and the correct In
form. There immense peal Of laughter through
out Paris when the Figaro published the other day
the protest Of five of Zolas apostles against the
trcme vagares of their master The protest was
well written. yet ungenerous, because some Of these
young people had been towed into smooth water by
ZOla, and had sooner reached the haven Of COM
parative success than they turn upon him tooth and
nail 1t may be, however, that they are sincere In
their repentance, for some Of them began by being
naster than the prince Of nastiness. To-day they
freely admit that they must rally to the spirit of the
and that tho adaptation of the filth of the last
half Of the eighteenth century to the novel Of the last
half Of the nineteenth Is longer possible They
therefore have announced their desertion in a body
and have issued solemn warning to lola that, If
he continues to write in SO filthy strain, he will
como to grief and get into literary chancery."
Houghton, Miffn d Co. will publish shortly Pro-
lessor Moses Colt Tylers life of Patrick Henry Pro-
fcssor Tyler has discovered and used all possible
sources of information.